Re: Libchamplain and GNOME 3.0

[Jiří Techet <techet gmail com>]

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 18:34, Łukasz Jernaś <deejay1 srem org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Jiří Techet <techet gmail com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 13:59, Łukasz Jernaś <deejay1 srem org> wrote:
>>> On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Jiří Techet <techet gmail com> wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 20:39, Łukasz Jernaś <deejay1 srem org> wrote:
> [...]
>>>>> BTW Jiří can you make the Vala bindings enabled by default for 3.0?
>>>>
>>>> You mean --enable-vala to be used by default, right? I think this
>>>> should be possible as we distribute the .vapi and .deps files and only
>>>> copy them to the system with make install (I could remove the check
>>>> for the valac compiler in configure.ac actually - it's used only when
>>>> you run the create.sh script but not during make).
>>>
>>> Yes, but I would leave the check there, valac is needed to build the
>>> demo app and required it at build time may prevent some weird
>>> directory permission issues which may pop up.
>>
>> Ah, yes, that's true. But in that case I would prefer not to have vala
>> bindings enabled by default to reduce the amount of the necessary
>> packages for libchamplain build (the remaining bindings aren't enabled
>> by default either). Why do you need it to be enabled?
>
> Well, Vala is a blessed dependency of the GNOME desktop so I see no
> reason why they shouldn't be shipped by default.
> Personally I'd like the bindings to be there, because Emerillon's
> plugins will heavily depend on them and it would be a bit unfortunate
> if some distributions didn't ship them because they were off by
> default...

Wouldn't it be enough to put --enable-vala among
DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS (actually it is already there). To be honest
I'm not familiar with the process of distributions package creation so
I don't know based on what they decide whether they enable some
library features or not. Still I would prefer for libchamplain to be
buildable by default with the minimal dependency set.

By the way, how are the vala bindings distributed for other libraries?
I tried to locate something with the .vapi extension in gtk and
libsoup tarballs but I haven't found any - still the bindings exist
for them.

Jiri